Even the chickens are subdued, and they are generally about as subduable as seagulls. From Wordnik.com. [The Herald-Mail Online] Reference
She was never melancholy with those who were suffering; not because she had no sympathy for she was profoundly sympathetic -- but because she was subduable. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolution in Tanner's Lane] Reference
Thus far one of its votaries: and all that he vaunts to have acquired by this mysterious faculty of enthusiasm is the having rendered it "at length perfectly subduable.". From Wordnik.com. [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference
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